Leathery stomach cannot be cured completely because most of them have reached middle or late stage when found, but surgery and radiotherapy can be chosen according to the patient’s condition.
Leathery stomach is a type of advanced gastric cancer, which belongs to diffuse infiltrative type of gastric cancer, showing obvious infiltrative growth, involving most of the stomach or the whole stomach, with stiff stomach wall and small stomach lumen, barium contrast shows flat or disappeared mucous membrane folds, obviously shrunken stomach lumen but not smooth, and the whole stomach wall is stiff with no peristaltic wave, which is like a leathery stomach.
Leather stomach is a special case of gastric cancer, because the early symptoms of leather stomach are not obvious, when found, it is usually in advanced stage, even there is metastasis, if there is no distant metastasis, it can be treated by surgical resection and postoperative combined chemotherapy, but because when found, it is often in advanced stage, so even if there is no metastasis, leather stomach can not be completely cured in general.
If the patient suffers from leather stomach, should go to the hospital in time, clear cause after giving standardized treatment.